Modern Warfare 4 will be next gen hints CV

The online CV of an Infinity Ward programmer suggests the developer’s next game will be on next gen consoles, as rumours also emerge of a new Wolfenstein game and THQ’s 1666.

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Despite how much most people tend to lie on their CV they’ve actually become one of the most reliable sources for new game information over the years, and it looks like they’ve struck gold again in terms of Infinity Ward’s next plans.As discovered by famous internet sleuth Superannuation, writing on website Kotaku , an Infinity Ward lead engineer and project leader is boasting on his online CV that he’s working on an ’Unannounced Title’.

Not only that but the game is listed for XB2 (presumably the next generation Xbox console), PS3, PC DX11 and ‘TBA’. Or at least it was until he quickly changed the details when he realised the whole Internet was looking at his job history.Apart from some other talk about DX11 experience – high end PC technology that is also thought to be the basis of the Xbox 720 – that’s all the facts on the CV, but it’s not much of a stretch to assume the ‘unannounced title’ is a Call Of Duty title. Although it’s a complete guess as to whether it’d be Modern Warfare 4 or a new sub-brand.What’s less of a guess is that Infinity Ward’s next game, whatever it is, will be out next year. Not only do they always release a new Call Of Duty every other year but the fact that the new game is on both Xbox 720 and PlayStation 3 suggests exactly the sort of multigenerational title you’d expect for a new console’s launch year.There is an outside chance that fellow Call Of Duty developer Slegehammer could be working on a game of their own for next year, and that Infinity Ward’s next won’t be until 2014 – but there’s been very little else to suggest that so far.Elsewhere in the same column Superannuation references a plausible sounding rumour we’ve never heard before, that Swedish developer Machinegames – which was formed by most of the top talent from Chronicles Of Riddick developer Starbreeze Studios – is working on a new Wolfenstein game.Finally, there’s some additional info on the mysterious THQ game that revolves around the number 1666. Previously this was taken to be a reference to the Great Fire of London, but one of THQ’s newly registered web addresses is 1666amsterdam.com

Since nothing of any special interest happened in Amsterdam that year the speculation now is that it’s a house number, and a reference to Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. Although that still doesn’t give any real clue as to what the game is about.